I like the Neal idea. IIRC, he scored a good number of his goals from that left faceoff circle area, where the rover normally would end up (if Letang is at the point, Malkin and Crosby are sort of roaming near the right side, and Kunitz takes the front).

I don't know about Neal on the point. It makes sense to have him shooting more, but I have no idea if he can do the other little things that make for a good point man (e.g. holding the puck in the zone, keeping the puck moving with intelligent passes, back checking like a demon when the other team breaks, etc.).

I wouldn't mind Letang and Niskanen on the points, if just for the sake of limiting shorties against. Niskanen is not ideal, but he's a decent passer, shooter, and skater.

You can't have Niskanen on the 1st with Letang because you need him to sort of QB the 2nd unit. Who else are you going to put back there?

It makes sense to have 4 FWDs on one unit, given our lack of D capable of playing the PP, but it's better having the 4th FWD on the first unit with Sid and Geno. Neal is a rover anyway, so it's not like he'll always be at the point.

Yeah, seriously, there's no point in sending that unit out there. How do they enter the zone even? Like, what is the plan when you talk about your entries for a power play, who carries it? Martin? He's the only one that has any extensive puck carrying experience...they're gonna take a lot of interference penalties at the blueline I think, because they're gonna be instructed to pick at the blueline to let Martin in on the left side and then throw it across to the weak side I bet...

Let's see what happens, hopefully we come up with something better than that...Geno's not here yet, right? Wednesday?

mikey287 wrote:Yeah, seriously, there's no point in sending that unit out there. How do they enter the zone even? Like, what is the plan when you talk about your entries for a power play, who carries it? Martin? He's the only one that has any extensive puck carrying experience...they're gonna take a lot of interference penalties at the blueline I think, because they're gonna be instructed to pick at the blueline to let Martin in on the left side and then throw it across to the weak side I bet...

Let's see what happens, hopefully we come up with something better than that...Geno's not here yet, right? Wednesday?

reporting 9:05 am!

He looked good ; but I had to return to work and could only stay 45mins.

pcm, that assumes that we're dumping it in on a power play? That's rarely the right play with a man advantage...that's a "**** it, this isn't working, we can't get in the zone...here you are..." type of thing, not a sustainable entry...at least in my opinion...

pcm, that assumes that we're dumping it in on a power play? That's rarely the right play with a man advantage...that's a "**** it, this isn't working, we can't get in the zone...here you are..." type of thing, not a sustainable entry...at least in my opinion...

I think he means if the other team clears it, TK can retrieve (or something like that)

I'm getting sick of the team putting Sid on the right half wall when both he and Geno are playing. Geno is WAY more dangerous on the half wall than Sid is. Geno has the best one time in the league from that position. Sid is much better down low. Simple solution.

pcm, that assumes that we're dumping it in on a power play? That's rarely the right play with a man advantage...that's a "**** it, this isn't working, we can't get in the zone...here you are..." type of thing, not a sustainable entry...at least in my opinion...

I think he means if the other team clears it, TK can retrieve (or something like that)